Sustained ventricular tachycardia in cardiac hemochromatosis treated with amiodarone

Cardiac hemochromatosis can cause heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias. Among these arrhythmias, ventricular tachycardia may be resistant to treatment. A case of cardiac hemochromatosis complicated with ventricular tachycardia that did not respond to intravenous lidocaine, procainamide or propafenone, nor to DC cardioversion, was successfully treated with amiodarone. Amiodarone, a class III antiarrhythmic drug, may be highly effective in similar cases.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1997

Erschienen:

1997

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Journal of electrocardiology - 30(1997), 2 vom: 21. Apr., Seite 147-9

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yalçinkaya, S [VerfasserIn]
Kumbasar, S D [VerfasserIn]
Semiz, E [VerfasserIn]
Tosun, Z [VerfasserIn]
Paksoy, N [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Amiodarone
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Case Reports
Journal Article
N3RQ532IUT

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 22.07.1997

Date Revised 05.09.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM090973674